Genius envy : women shaping French poetic history, 1801-1900 /
"Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercœur, Mélanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Ségalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women's voices. Places...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Language Notes: | Text in English, poetry selections in French. |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | "Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercœur, Mélanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Ségalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women's voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 352 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271077086 0271077085 0271077093 9780271077093 |